Senior Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2026
Interview
Initial HR phone screening followed by a full onsite interview loop consisting of three technical interviews, each focused on data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving, including implementing solutions and optimizing complexity in a LeetCode-style format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implemetn a LRU Cache:
designing a data structure with O(1) time complexity for get and put operations, evicting the least recently used item when capacity is exceeded
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Feb 2026
Interview
Smooth process, started with a referral from a friend for the AI foundry team in Bengaluru. Was informed that there would be initial 2 rounds of DSA/coding followed by 2 system design rounds and an AI assisted coding round. Flunked the first 2 rounds itself, due to lack of LC grind :/
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Portland, OR) in Aug 2025
Interview
There were 5 interviews and 4 of the interviewers were late. It was never acknowledged. The technical portions seemed to have specific solutions in mind rather than a discussion about approaches.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to define a naming convention for blob storage and then write a function to get blobs from certain date ranges